Improvement in buttons



0. H. GOODWIN.

Buttons.

N0. 166,09]. Patentedluly2.7,1875.

ii wh 5515, Pucrro-Ln'mGRAPm, WASHINGTON, 01C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WATERBURY BUTTON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,091, dated July 27, 1875 application filed May 31, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. GooDwIN, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in- Manufacture of Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in- Figure 1 an edge view, and in Fig. 2 a side view, of theedge, as prepared for attachment I to the button Fig. 3, perspective view, showing the manner of attaching to the buttonback; Fig. 4., diagram, illustrating previous constructions.

This invention relates to .an improvement in the manufacture of that class of buttons which are constructed with an eye made from 'bent wire.

The usual method of forming these eyes is illustrated in Fig. 4. The two ends a a of the wire are brought together in the same plane with the eye A. Theseends are then inserted through the button-back, and turned down, as denoted in broken lines, still in the same plane with the eye.

By such construction there is very little to support the eye laterally, and preyent it from tipping to the right or left, unless the ends be soldered to the button-back.

The object of this invention is to so form the eye that in its attachment it shall be firm in all directions; and it consists in an eye formed irom wire, the two ends of which are brought together in a plane at right angles to the plane of the eye, and secured to the back, as hereinafter set forth.

This improved eye is formed from wire.ot' substantially the usual length, and is bent into ring-shape to form the eye B, the two ends at overlapping each other, so that the plane of the two is atright angles to the plane ot'theeye. Thus constructed the two ends are passed through the buttonback C, and turned to the right and left from the plane of the eye, as seen in Fig. 3, clamping the back firmly between the ends and the body of the eye. The eye itself bearing against the back prevents the tipping of the eye in the direction of its own plane, and the ends at prevent the tipping of the eye across such plane, the two sides of the eye bracing one against the other, as clearly seen in Fig. 3. The two ends may be bent into the same plane with the eye, and then be very much stronger than the usual construction, because of the bracing position in which the two sides of the eye stand to each other. By this construction the eye is attached to the button-back in the most substantial manner, and without the intervention of any part of material except that contained in the eye itself.

I claim The herein-described improvement in the manufacture of buttons, consisting of the button-eye formed from wire, bent to bring the two ends into a plane, substantially at right angles to the plane of the eye proper, and substantially as set forth.

CHARLES H. GOODWIN.

Witnesses: v

JOSEPH B. SMITH, GEO. H. CowELL. 

